Last week Frankfurt , this week Freiburg. Again, we β my husband and I β only had two nights in Freiburg. Disclosure: Our visit to Freiburg was sponsored by Visit. Freiburg , Alte Wache and Schauinslandbahn. Nevertheless, all opinions are my own. And another disclosure: This article contains affiliate links.
If you click on one and make a purchase, I will receive a small commission. This will not affect your price. We saw most of these sights on a very entertaining walking tour by a company called Timewalking. Our tour was private, part of Visit. Her regular guided tours are only in German, but her English is excellent and you can hire her for a private tour as well.
As I added sights to the map above, I realized that most of them were in a neat circle covering the Altstadt , the old town. In particular, the meter foot spire is beautifully lacy.
Built between and , Freiburg Cathedral is partly Romanesque and partly Gothic. The stained glass windows inside are exquisite. The medieval guilds gave them to the church, and you can see at the bottom of each one a symbol of the donating guild. They survived the war because they were taken down and stored safely outside the city inside a mine until the war was over.
But I understand the current ones are replicas while the originals are in a museum. The cathedral has some wonderful gargoyles, some of which are newer replacements of ones that are too eroded to be recognizable anymore.
